La turbulence des fluides

Film Description:"Alice, a seismologist working in Tokyo, is sent to a small town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River to observe a peculiar phenomenon: the tides have stopped rising and falling. To Japanese experts, this signals that a major, global earthquake is on the way. They also take it as a sign of fate that the town happens to be Alice's birthplace. Alice does everything she can to maintain an emotional distance from the town, where she spent an unhappy childhood. She does her research, conducts seismic probes, and begins to worry: for some strange reason, there's no listing in the local telephone book for Marc Vandal, an attractive pilot. The only way to probe the unfathomable is to throw oneself heart and soul into the task, at the risk of losing oneself... If you can't raise someone from the dead, can you at least help someone rekindle their desire for life?"-- Telefilm Canada
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Quotes about La turbulence des fluides

"Given his function as an attractive spectacle whose ownership by the hero relies on the discovery of his secret, Marc ultimately functions as an artsy displacement of the traditional object of desire in mainstream films. His otherness vis-à-vis the audience is one of class rather than sex."
-- André Loiselle
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"This exquisite film, which takes us on what sometimes seems to be
an adventure of biblical proportions, leads us into a net of intrigue
that engages with the intersections between the spiritual and the
scientific, between reason and faith."
-- Erin Manning
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Bibliography for La turbulence des fluides

Brief Sections of Books

Loiselle, André. "Look like a Worker and Act like a Worker: Stereotypical Representations of the Working Class in Quebec Fiction Feature Films."
In Working On Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema, edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
(pp. 227-228)